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obsolescence

[ ob-suh-les-uhns ]

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noun

obsolescence

A decline in the value of equipment or of a product brought about by an introduction of new technology or by changes in demand . ( See planned obsolescence .)

First recorded in 1820–30; obsolesc(ent) + -ence

In doing so, he implied the obsolescence of that most embedded of British watering holes, the pub.

These passages feel the most lived in; aging, for Rebecca Winter, is less frightening than obsolescence.

Can a consumer electronics technology help solve the environmental problems by the rampant obsolescence of consumer electronics?

(That infrastructure, by the way, comes with assorted vandalism, obsolescence, and parking logistics issues).

And therein lies a tale of fragility and obsolescence that can be told in two tidy charts.

Some may enjoy a second life; most of them will feel only the weakness of a second obsolescence.

It would be rash to say that it shows signs of approaching obsolescence, but that it is steadily weakening is fairly clear.

Petzholdt's Bibliotheca bibliographica is a classified bibliography that shows signs of obsolescence.

The industrial traits in this way tend to obsolescence through disuse.

The assertion of the rapid obsolescence of ships of war will be dwelt upon, in the hopes of contravening it.

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